651-2088/01 – Environmental aspects of transportation (EAD)
| Gurantor department | Department of Chemistry and Physico-Chemical Processes | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Vlastimil Matějka, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Vlastimil Matějka, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2024/2025 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FS | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the subject is to introduce the issues related to the effect of transportation on the living environment, the sources of pollution with the origin in transportation, and also to introduce the possible prevention of pollution coming from the transportation. Students will understand the methods used for the characterization of pollution and will also be able to discuss the legislation issues connected to transportation in relation to environmental issues. The student will be able to predict and assess the level of given form of transportation on the living environment and will be able to propose preventive precautions to decrease its impact.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Experimental work in labs
Summary
The subject is oriented on the problematics of transportation impact on the living environment. The discussed topics include the direct impact of transport of materials and personal transport, as well as unexpected influences caused by accidents during transportation and possible prevention and mitigation of their impact on the living environment. The methods used for the evaluation of the pollution of the individual environmental components will be introduced and the interpretation of the obtained results will be targeted to reveal the contribution of transportation to their overall pollution.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Oral examination.
E-learning
Created electronic studying material will be available to students through web interface.
Other requirements
There are not additional requirements towards the student.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Lectures:
1. Introduction to the Influence of Transportation on the Living Environment
2. Legislation and living environment
3. The sources of pollution as a result of transportation and the methods of evaluation of the impact of transportation on the living environment.
4. The influence of the transport of the materials on the living environment
5. The transport accidence and living environment
6. The noise coming from form the transportation
7. Transportation and air pollution 1
8. Transportation and the air pollution 2
9. Transportation and the soil pollution
10. Transportation and Water Pollution
11. The methods of the air quality monitoring
12. Methods for Monitoring Water and Soil Quality
13. Recycling of materials as an approach towards reducing the negative impact of transportation on the environment
14. Possibilities to decrease the environmental load caused by transportation
Excersises:
1. Safety in laboratories, introduction of the topics of practical exercises
2. Quantitative expression of the pollutant’s concentration
3. Excursion to the laboratory focused on the monitoring of the air quality
4. Quantification of the air pollution caused by the friction processes
5. Excursion to the laboratory focused on the testing of the ecotoxicity
6. Characterization of the chemical composition of particulate matter
7. Chharacterization of the phase composition of particulate matter
8. Characterization of the particle’s morphology using microscopy techniques
9. Evaluation of the data sets obtained from the devices dedicated for the determination of the mass and particle size distribution.
10. Determination of the selected parameters of water
11. Diagnostics and quality inspections of the operating fluids, their possible impact on the living environment
12. Excursion to national reference laboratory for the noise measurement
13. Identification of the polymers and the possible gaseous products released during the thermal cycles
14. Final evaluation
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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